Office Politics

I may not have learn alot on the practical part during my attachment, but I defintely learn tons of things that are outside the textbooks. Things that I will never learn in school.

Never will I think that office can be so cliquish. I thought that will only happen in primary school and secondary school? I really lost in the outside world, without the protection on my parents and lecturers. Izzit so diffcult to ask another person along for lunch? The person may not intend to join you, but you should have just ask as a form of polite. If we have the rights to leave early on chinese new year eve, as a supervisor, I expect you at least to inform me. Instead of you leaving home after lunch leaving me alone in the office with all the indians and malays. You're just as freaking idiot. Luckily, I'm clever enough to spot that all the chineses have leaft and requested to leave early too. And of course, plus stop teaching me all the vulgarites. I'm not like you dirty and ugly. I'm like an angel from the sky, unicorn from the ground. Stop polluting my clean world with your ugly vulgarites. Go ahead and teach that idiot who thinks that you're great, funny and always trying to follow whatever you say.

What's the meaning of going for an attachment if you are not going to learn anything from it? Giving people something to do provides that you need to teach people how to start doing it. If u think that you rather do it yourself than teach others, then do you expect all fresh graduate to know everyting once they graduate? So what's the point of employing people with experience since fresh graduates knows everything and they're cheaper. It'll just show how selfish you people are not willing to share withe others. Being busy is not an excuse not to stop people from learning.

I think the world surrounding me is degrading very very quickly. I'm meeting more and more rude and selfish people as day pass. Agreeing with selfish people don't make you more superior, cos you don't even know what that ego pig will say about you behind your back. Plus his super racist character will never lead him to any success even if his signature show that he is a person with backbone and like challenges. Who cares what a signature tell abt you? My fate is not going to be determined by my signature. I alway believe that my fate lies in my own hand. Just like I may have done badly in secondary school, but I turn it back by trying extra hard during my poly days. Where am I now? I also in university like all my secondary friends and fulfiling my mother's wish. If I'm going to believe what you tell me by analyzing my signature, then I don't think I could have done as far. Just to prove you wrong, I'm going to work real hard and maybe I'll be your boss when years come.

I'm waiting for school to start to go back to my clean environment with all my normal classmates. To those who I told used tobe rude and selfish, I'm sorry. Comparing to the stupid people outside, you guys are just peanuts.

I miss NTU

Can you believe it, it's only the 2nd day of work and I'm missing school now. Boo... I miss my classmates, the fun we have teasing each other. I miss going for lecture and tutorial. I miss mingfen, the time we spend giving our classmates different nicknames. I miss meiying, going back to my room in the evening seeing her watching videos like lost and american next top model with her door open. Miss talking to meiying outside my room gossiping about others, miss meiying painting my nails and gossiping at the same time. Can I exchange my 22 weeks of ia to 10 weeks? I don't mind going for exams anymore. Just send me back to school, though NTU jinxed me. I'll always fall sick when I go back to school, I just don't understand why. I WANT TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL!!!

But then, ia also have it's fun part. I learnt quite alot during the past 2 days, though it's totally not realted to ene. It's things that I learnt during lesson and I get to see the bulding and the installation of the equpiment. The place I'm working now will disappear in 1 year time. They will cover up the whole area with soil and so the whole water treatment process will be underground. The thought of this is damn cool. I'm actully standing on the level which no one will be able to stand on it after a year. Which means that people will be thinking I'm working underground for the whole ia period. Haa... But then again, work life is so boring. I still have 152 days to go...

Industrial Attachment

Went back to school today for a super meanlessing and boring industrial attachment briefing. I guess the school should have just name it a talk. Cos it just give us irrevelant information about the whole IA programme. Though the talk is boring, meeting up with some of my classmates are really great. I really never see them for quite some time le and we won't be seeing each other again for another half a year. I'll miss all of you.

It's good to go around asking each other what company we are in and how much we are paid. Being the few with no information on my pay and stuff, I can see which company is willing to pay more and which company is the stingy company that pays little. So far the highest I have heard is 700 bucks and lowest is 540 bucks. Out of such a wide range, why must I be the bunch that go 540 bucks too. Super sad. I want to have a high pay, plus it's super far away from my house. I want to complain and have a pay raise. I have to wake up at 5 am everyday even on saturday cos I have to work 5 and a half days. So if there's anoyone out there who needs a morning call, u can tell me. Haa...

Maybe I should not complain so much. There's only 8 environmental companies in the list and there are 80 students fighting for it. I'm definitely one of the luckily few that got into an evironmental company. At least it's related to what I'm studying in school now, water treatment. There are tonnes of my friends being dumped into soil and concrete companies. If I have a choice, I think I'll still want to stay in a water company with lesser pay and have to wake up earlier. Talking about pay, I just happen to find out that the environmental company seems to pay less than the soil company. WHY? Because of our high demand, so there're trying to make us cheap labours? The school seriously should do something about it. It won't affect me in any way but more environmental companies should be found and open to environmental students only. If civil people already got some many choices to choose from, then why are they competing with us? IF environmental students are going to work in civil companies, then why bother to split us up into civil and environmental?

Enough of all my complainings, feeling really sick this week. I need to rest well this week and hopefully I'll recover before my attachment start. Don't want to be sick on the 1st day of work, if not the company people cannot heard my sweet and beautiful voice. (Haa.. People, pls dont throw up).

Hopeless

Hall 10 boggle made in to the semi again this year. Instead of feeling happy as a captain, I'm feeling quite pissed. Like what I had said before, boggle is not longer fun like last year. All the while I though it might due to stress. From all the trainings and the HUGE responsibilty of being a manager made me feel like I'm going to get mad soon.

The team only lost to Hall 15 during the 1st day making them(Hall 10) the 1st runner-up of Group A. As some of you may know, my best friend from Group B was the winner of Group B. I'm gald that both of us made it into semi, yet both of the halls will be playing for the seed to get into finals. To those people with no sportsmanship, thinking that good friends will betray their hall to just to let the other win, I can tell u loudly or scream into your ears, we are not that kind of people. We are people who live with pride and dignity, we wont let the each other win just because the other wants the medal more than the other.

To Mr TYH, just to let u know, or u may not know, or which ever kpo give u my blog add or watever, I don't care, stop acting like u're the captain of the team. I feel so intimated as a captain. I'm a human not a puppet. So what if the ex-captain let you decide on the line-up and stuff. As a captain this year, I hope to have more authority and repect from all my players. Because of you, I'm losing the respect of some players especially the male freshie in our team. It's the captain authority to decide on the line-up and know who is palying for each seat. Not for an outsider who give up boggle because of GIP, not even the manager and of course not the captain. If your passion for boggle is really so humongous, then I guess you would not go for GIP without telling the team in advance and leaving us to die. Stop acting like you are the god of Hall 10 bringing us to the semi again. You may have lots of influence in the rest of the players but I refuse to admit my break through was entirely your effort. If one never put in their own time n effort to train, there'll never be a improvement or success in the player. I belive in myself and I proved to myself that it's because of the time I've put in for boggle to win.

To the male freshie, you may want to follow the foot step of Mr TYH, go ahead. You'll definitely lose your respect from me and your opponent. Maybe you don't even care, but as a little reminder, you're going to get backstad if u continue to act so self-centered and think that you're better than the other. To tell you the truth, you are really a lousy player compared to my friend. Stop thinking you are good and know the rules every well. If you are really so good, then I guess you should have won Hall 15 and your scrabble game.

To the idotic rec and a-rec sec, stop acting like both of you know the game every well, especially for the a-rec sec. You were not around for any of our training and I doubt you know boggle well. So please stop influencing on my decision. If Mr Rec Sec want to think the success is own to Mr TYH and being in the semi is just the contination of last year success, I'm totally fine with all of you for not respecting me as a captain. But when can all of you stop linking boggle with Mr TYH? He's really not the best player in NTU and I'm waiting for the downfall of him.

Sorry to all my 52 friends, I'm going to move out of hall soon. Or maybe I should say I can't wait to move out now. Cos Mr TYH is now staying in 52, I can't stand staying in the same block with someone who don't even give me basic respect. To someone who doubt my dignity. I'm a proud person and I cannot stand or I should say I HATE people who doubt my pride. I'll miss 52 good memories and of course my lovely tennis team. Good luck to all the tennis player, I hope you guys can make it to the final next year. I'm feeling super proud as your manager. Hall 10 has no meaning to me now. The more I play for the hall, the more I feel that it doesn't appreciate me as a player. Not recognising my hard work, time and effort. If that's the case, I'll just make a stop to my 2 years of hall life. Thank meiying for giving me the most beautiful and wonderful feeling for hall.

ps: the use of them, they and their is because I not longer consider myself as a Hall 10 player. I'm just a lousy, being puppet, stupid, weak Hall 10 ex-captain now!!!